“Sponsored the RISEE Act to direct offshore wind energy revenues to coastal states so that Maine's coastal communities receive funding from offshore wind development to invest in resilient infrastructure.”
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CHAMPIONED is upheld. The two PRIMARY king.senate.gov sources are both reachable and verify with exact-match quotes. Source 1's headline "Senate Energy Committee Passes King Bill to Share Offshore Wind Energy Revenues with Maine Communities" appears verbatim and documents that King co-sponsored the bipartisan RISEE Act, that the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee passed it on 2022-07-21, and that its purpose is directing offshore wind revenue to Maine coastal communities for coastal restoration/infrastructure. Source 2 (dated 2024-11-19) contains the cited sentence verbatim ("...would send 37.5% of revenues from projects in federal waters to the coastal states that invested in wind farms") and shows King's sustained sponsorship into the 118th Congress. Together these establish sustained legislative leadership beyond a single vote — his office branded the effort the "King Bill" and drove it through committee across two Congresses — which fits CHAMPIONED rather than a fully-delivered rating, since the Act was never enacted and no revenue has actually reached Maine communities. That non-delivery occurred at stages beyond King's unilateral control (full Senate/House/President). Source 3 (congress.gov S.373) returned HTTP 403 via WebFetch, but its cited text is honestly presented as a factual summary (not a fabricated verbatim quote) and its claims were independently corroborated by WebSearch and GovTrack: King is a cosponsor (lead sponsor Whitehouse), the bill was reported out of the Energy & Natural Resources Committee on 2024-11-21, placed on the Senate calendar, got no floor vote, and was not enacted. Minor imprecision (the rating calls King a 'named/lead sponsor' when he is formally a cosponsor) does not overstate the evidence enough to change the rating, since his office's branding and repeated press-driven advocacy substantiate championing. The outcome does not overstate the evidence; the funding caveat is correctly flagged.
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